Life on the Great Barrier Reef is undergoing big changes in the face of climate change and other human-caused pressures, a ...

The team found that the diversity of fish communities across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) have changed dramatically since the ...

Off the coast of the Maldives, the coral reef “twilight zone” is buzzing with life. This section of reef — categorized as ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Researchers have discovered a rare example of 'great fish parenting' with a common coral reef species found to actively protect their young by eating ... Coral Adaptation ...

Artificial light can wake sleeping fish and attract predators, changing nighttime coral reef communities, according to new research using novel underwater infrared cameras. Artificial light can ...

where new coral species are attracted to the restored reefs, providing new habitats for fish species. “Bioacoustics is the study of sounds produced by living organisms. Listening to a coral reef ...

A recent study off Sri Lanka’s west coast, which included surveys of coral reefs and shipwrecks like the Thermopylae Sierra, found that shipwrecks support more abundant fish assemblages compared with ...

With sumptuous, fleshy lips and a bulbous, protruding forehead, the humphead wrasse is an unforgettable fish. This enormous, colorful coral-reef dweller is slow to reproduce, making it vulnerable to ...

Cryptobenthic fishes are tiny yet diverse and abundant in almost all marine ecosystems. While these fishes are very small, recent work has shown that they may play vital roles as abundant prey at the ...

An artificial reef is a way of boosting the ocean's capacity to create fish, to increase the life of the Gulf." Some biologists worry that artificial reefs simply attract fish from natural reefs ...

Shipwrecks host more diverse fish assemblages compared with natural coral reefs off the coast of Colombo, Sri Lanka’s commercial capital. Research shows that shipwrecks provide more complex ...